Monday, August 30, 2010

Do not try this at home!

You never know who you’re messing with. So don’t mess!

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The video raises a serious point for those of you who worry about being too small, too old, or too incarcerated to be able to defend yourself.
I'm making a lot of assumptions here, but this guy may not have had many options:

Run? Nope. Nowhere to go.

Talk his way out of it? May not be able to speak the same language. Or they may all be drunk. Or something.

Use an improvised weapon? Hmmm. Don’t they usually search for, and confiscate any weapons before they put you in the slammer? Not an option.

Give up? Not this guy. He may be our last, best hope. When the nuclear apocalypse happens, there will be cockroaches and this guy left. Somehow he will have to repopulate. Don’t want to think about it.

Fight back? That would imply waiting for the attackers to attack. Which leads to the inevitable defending against five guys. Which is probably just stupid! So…

He attacks! The unexpected here is what will work. Or has the best chance of working, however slim that chance may be. Go on the offensive, and have the tools to get the job done. In this case, those tools are some good boxing skills.

Not sure Elias. And without that information I can't judge his justification. My point was really focused on that tactics of someone who is outnumbered and smaller than his adversaries. Generically. One can almost never win a defensive battle, but when outnumbered and surrounded, it's suicide, in my opinion.

You're right though, in that he didn't get swarmed as a result of his actions. That would've hurt. Also, he can punch!

I think this is another example of one of those eastern European bouncers in a club who solves all problems by knocking everybody out. If you notice at the beginning it's just 2 guys having a verbal argument when "mr tough guy" punches both of them out along with anybody else standing around. None of which ever displayed any physical threat.